Gil Fink's Blog

May 31, 2013

New Speaking Engagement – Øredev 2013 I got notifications a few weeks ago that I have been chosen to speak at Øredev 2013 conference. The conference will take place in November 4-8 at Malmö, Sweden. This is going to be my first time in Sweden and I’m very excited. In the conference I’ll have the following session: Building End to End Web App Using TypeScript Creating cross-platform, application scale, JavaScript that runs in any browser or in any host is very hard. TypeScript is a programming language that changes that situation. In this session...

May 30, 2013

A New Meetup in Town – Front-End.IL In the last couple of months I have considered opening a new Meetup for Front-End Development (FED). Today I announce this new Meetup – Front-End.IL. Every month at the 15th we will gather on Sela Group’s roof for networking and front-end development sessions. The first Meetups are scheduled to 15th of July and 15th of August and you can find their details in the Meetup website. If you want to speak in the Meetup I encourage you to contact me. See you there!

May 29, 2013

Advanced Windows Store App Development Using HTML5 and JavaScript Microsoft Official Course Today we got the announcement that another Microsoft Official Course (MOC) that I co-authored was released. The course is “Course 20482A: Advanced Windows Store App Development Using HTML5 and JavaScript” and you can find its syllabus here. About The Course “In this course the students will learn the more advanced programming skills and techniques that they can use to optimize their Windows Store app and differentiate their app from other apps in the Windows Store. These advanced skills and techniques include a combination of...

May 15, 2013

VSLive Chicago Sessions Slide Decks and Demos Just finished delivering three sessions in VSLive Chicago. It was nice meeting all the attendees and talking about technologies that I like like HTML5, OData and Entity Framework. Here is a list of the sessions that I delivered: Working with Client-Side HTML5 Storage Technologies OData - Oh Yeah Not Just a Designer: Code First and Entity Framework You can find the slide decks and demos in this link.

May 12, 2013

VSLive Chicago Here I Come In about a few hours I’m starting a trip to Chicago to attend VSLive Chicago conference. It is going to be the second time I’m speaking in VSLive conference and I’m excited (the previous one had been in VSLive Redmond 2012). This time I’m having three back-to-back sessions at the same day (Wednesday). The session topics are: Working with Client-Side HTML5 Storage Technologies HTML is the markup language that every web developer uses in order to structure and present content in the Internet. HTML5...

May 7, 2013

SDP13 Third Day Slide Decks and Demos Today I participated the Sela SDP13 conference second breakout sessions day. I delivered two sessions: Creating Data Driven HTML5 Applications Building Scalable JavaScript Apps I want to thank all the people who came to hear both of my sessions. You can download the slide deck and demos of all my SDP13 breakout sessions from here. SDP is over for me as a speaker but the conference continues until the end of this week. See you in the...

May 6, 2013

Embracing JavaScript with TypeScript Slide Deck and Demos Today I participated the Sela SDP13 conference first breakout sessions day. I delivered a session about the TypeScript language with the following agenda: The Why Introduction to TypeScript Building a Simple App with TypeScript I want to thank all the people who came to hear about the language. You can download the slide deck and demos from here. Tomorrow I’m having 2 sessions: Creating Data Driven HTML5 Applications ...

May 2, 2013

Sela Developer Practice 2013 is Around the Corner Next week it is starting! The biggest developer conference Sela had so far. Here are some interesting details about the conference: We have 8 international speakers including Jesse Liberty, Shawn Wildermuth, and Udi Dahan and 28 local speakers We have more then 70 sessions and workshops 14 of the workshops were sold out so we had to duplicate some of them The session topics include a lot of interesting technologies like...